Incidents occur on the night of Aug. 12; Mandya SP visits spot Srirangapatna: Gangs looting commuters on the Mysuru-Bengaluru Expressway are back in action and in two incidents reported on Saturday night, two couples fell victim to daring robberies. In the first incident, Shivaprasad and his wife Suma from Udupi district were robbed by two…
Delegates hail Tipu’s Summer Palace, natural colour frescoes
August 3, 2023Special illumination at Mysore Palace arranged with Police Band performance Mysore/Mysuru: After three days of deliberations inside the conference hall of Radisson Blu Plaza Hotel here, delegates of the G20’s Think20 Summit visited the historical town of Srirangapatna last evening and saw a couple of places including the Daria Daulat Bagh. The delegates, from over…
Tour of Somnathpur, Chamundi Hill tomorrow
August 2, 2023Today evening, delegates to visit Srirangapatna, Dariya Daulat Bagh, Sriranganathaswamy Temple, KRS Dam Mysore/Mysuru: The delegates of the ongoing Think20 Summit in Mysuru will visit a couple of historical places of Srirangapatna this evening. The delegates will start their tour post-lunch and the destinations include Srirangapatna Fort and Dariya Daulat Bagh. They will also be…
Ahead of T20 Summit delegates’ visit on August 2: Officials scramble to keep Srirangapatna Fort clean
August 1, 2023Srirangapatna: Ahead of the scheduled visit of over 200 worldwide delegates attending the ongoing T20 Summit to Srirangapatna, the Mandya District Administration is in a frenzy to ensure cleanliness at the Srirangapatna Fort and other tourist sites. The delegates are expected to arrive in Srirangapatna on Aug. 2 evening and will tour various attractions, including…
Wild elephants driven out of sugarcane field in Srirangapatna
July 31, 2023Srirangapatna: A herd of nine wild elephants, which raided sugarcane fields at Hampapura and Hebbadi villages and had stayed put in a sugarcane field at Gamanahalli village in Srirangapatna taluk since yesterday morning, were finally driven out of the sugarcane field yesterday evening by the Forest Department staff. After the herd of wild elephants began…
Four women meet watery grave as car falls into VC Canal
July 30, 2023Three of deceased from Goravanahalli in T. Narasipur taluk, another from Gamanahalli in Srirangapatna taluk; youth driving car miraculously survives Mysore/Mysuru: Close on the heels of a man meeting his watery grave at Visvesvaraya Canal (VC Canal) in Mandya district after his car plunged into the canal recently, four women, including a woman and her…
CM travels on Expressway; reviews safety measures
July 29, 2023Mandya/Srirangapatna: Chief Minister Siddharamaiah travelled by road from Bengaluru to Mysuru on the Mysuru-Bengaluru Expressway and stopped at two places to review the safety measures taken by the Police and the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) to prevent accidents on the high-speed access-controlled road. His cavalcade first stopped near Amaravathi Hotel — near Ummadahalli…
Trial run with AI-equipped cameras begins on Expressway
July 29, 2023Srirangapatna: A trial run of Artificial Intelligence (AI)-based cameras [Automatic Number Plate Recognition (ANPR) camera, also known as Licence Plate Recognition (LPR) camera] commenced on Mysuru-Bengaluru Expressway this morning, hours before the scheduled visit of CM Siddharamaiah. Many speeding vehicles were penalised at the Gananguru and Kanaminike Toll Plazas and receipts were issued through hand-held…
KRS water level crosses 104 ft.
July 26, 2023Dam can reach 124.80 feet in 10 days if daily inflow of 50,000 cusecs is maintained Srirangapatna: Water level at the KRS Dam in Srirangapatna Taluk breached the 100 ft. mark and touched 104.80 ft. this morning as against its maximum level of 124.80 ft. After a delayed South West Monsoon, the Dam has been…
KRS water all set to be released from 40 new crest gates
July 26, 2023Srirangapatna: The replacement works of over 40 sluice/ crest gates of KRS Dam has been completed and in case the Dam fills up to the brim, water will be released from 40 new gates. For the first time, all the 136 sluice/ crest gates out of the total 153 are being replaced. In all, there…
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